Episode 30: AA Freethinkers Secular Recovery in Japan | A Talk with Chris R.

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08/24/16 • 56 min

Chris grew up the son of an Anglican priest in a city in Saskatchewan originally founded as a temperance colony. At the time he started drinking as a teenager, there were a lot of legal restrictions with respect to alcohol—a legacy of the temperance movement. When he went to Japan in 1985 as an exchange student, he found a society that [...]

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